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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6604729" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Because the last time they were open and honest, they got absolutely crucified for it. Every little thing they said was analysed to the nth degree. When David Noonan made a comment about "cloud watching" that was fairly innocuous and innocent, meaning that fans should wait a bit and see more of the system before making such strong opinion statements, people went ballistic. When it was pointed out that what they were complaining about didn't actually appear in the article, they accused WOTC of editing that article after the fact to remove any contentious statements. When THAT was proven to be false, they went back to their chants of WOTC Sucks. </p><p></p><p>Let me rephrase that in point form:</p><p></p><p>1. Dev makes fairly innocuous comment</p><p>2. "Fans" go ballistic, twisting quotes and outright misquoting the comment to fuel fires.</p><p>3. It's definitively proven that the "fans" were flat out wrong and nothing they were complaining about actually was said by WOTC</p><p>4. "Fans" go right on misquoting, to the point that years later, the same issue gets brought up again and again as evidence of how bad WOTC is.</p><p></p><p>Or take the quote about "D&D isn't about traipsing through fairy rings" from one of the 4e preview books. People used that as a rallying cry for how 4e was abandoning its fans. Completely ignored the other 5000 words in the book, as they weren't, apparently, important. No, it was a single line from a sidebar that mattered.</p><p></p><p>No thanks. </p><p></p><p>See, people bring up Paizo. But, there's a difference. People who play Paizo Pathfinder talk about Pathfinder. People who don't play Pathfinder, don't talk about Pathfinder and couldn't care less about what the Devs are saying, generally. However, people who don't play D&D STILL care about what WOTC Devs say and will endlessly kvetch and complain, and whatnot, about a game they don't play in, apparently, an attempt to force everyone else to not play the game they don't like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6604729, member: 22779"] Because the last time they were open and honest, they got absolutely crucified for it. Every little thing they said was analysed to the nth degree. When David Noonan made a comment about "cloud watching" that was fairly innocuous and innocent, meaning that fans should wait a bit and see more of the system before making such strong opinion statements, people went ballistic. When it was pointed out that what they were complaining about didn't actually appear in the article, they accused WOTC of editing that article after the fact to remove any contentious statements. When THAT was proven to be false, they went back to their chants of WOTC Sucks. Let me rephrase that in point form: 1. Dev makes fairly innocuous comment 2. "Fans" go ballistic, twisting quotes and outright misquoting the comment to fuel fires. 3. It's definitively proven that the "fans" were flat out wrong and nothing they were complaining about actually was said by WOTC 4. "Fans" go right on misquoting, to the point that years later, the same issue gets brought up again and again as evidence of how bad WOTC is. Or take the quote about "D&D isn't about traipsing through fairy rings" from one of the 4e preview books. People used that as a rallying cry for how 4e was abandoning its fans. Completely ignored the other 5000 words in the book, as they weren't, apparently, important. No, it was a single line from a sidebar that mattered. No thanks. See, people bring up Paizo. But, there's a difference. People who play Paizo Pathfinder talk about Pathfinder. People who don't play Pathfinder, don't talk about Pathfinder and couldn't care less about what the Devs are saying, generally. However, people who don't play D&D STILL care about what WOTC Devs say and will endlessly kvetch and complain, and whatnot, about a game they don't play in, apparently, an attempt to force everyone else to not play the game they don't like. [/QUOTE]
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